9th JULY 1997 • The Wizarding World's Beguiling Broadsheet of Choice • 5 κ
OBLIVIATOR OBLIVIATED?
By Hubert Rove
Jedediah Egg, noted and celebrated Obliviator, has been reported as missing after yesterday's explosion in Scotland. Said to be the work of dark magic, the explosion that wrecked the house of known Muggle-born supporter Philip Grapple also injured six Muggles. Egg and his partner, Beethoven Youdle, split up to tag-team the citizens of the village.
"We always split up that way," said Youdle. "We make a sort of a circle. It's quick work, and we meet up again and everything is done and as it should be.
We've been doing this for more than a decade now. Nothing like this has ever happened."
Sometime between the splitting of the two and the next half hour, Jedediah was gone.
This is just another in the great rash of disappearances that have been reported throughout the country... Continued on page 7.